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Randolph Scully

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Early American History and other stuff. COYS!

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 17h
This is why baseball has curdled for me over the last couple years. MLB isn’t currently planning for a World Series. It’s planning for the owners to lock out the players. They have engineered a lockout and will then blame it on players for not accepting less. links.e1.nytimes.com/a/sc/PchhwJ1...
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Weddings in. Holiday cards out. Internal MLB memo sets rules for lockout
A memo obtained by The Athletic lays out details governing whether teams can send holiday cards to players, and if players can play abroad.
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This book is fantastic!
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A charlatan is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I kind of love it, tbh
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey historians! Check out this incredible CFP and please share!🗃️ atlanticexchanges.wm.edu/home-2/2027-...
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Booooooooo!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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John O'Brien @johnobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Behold, a job post in my department. The University of Virginia’s Department of English/Program in Creative Writing (creativewriting.virginia.edu ) invites applications for a tenure-line Assistant or Associate Professor in Fiction. To apply, please visit apply.interfolio.com/192511
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Mother Love
Fiction Reading
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Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Joan Scott's "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" turns 40 this year! Do you assign it? Has it been meaningful for your work? We want to hear from you!! Please submit reflections & remembrances to Nursing Clio & we'll compile a celebratory post! 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2026/09/23/a...
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Anglo-American Gender History turns 40!
Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm gonna wear so many flannel shirts this week...
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
HBD to Joan Jett, Baltimore Oriole
Black and white photo of Joan Jett decked out in Orioles gear
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Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert: Johns Hopkins Dept of History is accepting applications in Mediev European and/or Mediterranean History, 400-1500, associate or advanced assistant rank: apply.interfolio.com/193938. 🚨🚨
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Early American Studies @easmisc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EAS: Miscellany was saddened to learn of the death of Susan E. Klepp, a historian of early American women and an active member of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. We offer this collection of tributes in her honor: tinyurl.com/3uksu5nh
Black and white image of a woman smiling in front of a full bookshelf.
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iainham iainspook @iain.coys.social · 18/09/2026
Well well well, not so easy to not suck shit against Brentford, is it?
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job: The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a historian of sub-Saharan Africa at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Special interest in research focus on religious and/or sociocultural practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Deadline: October 16, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day Michigan!  Beautiful day marching in Detroit with Michigan's labor movement.  When our unions win, our communities win. I’m committed to passing the PRO Act and standing with organized labor in Congress. It’s an honor to be endorsed by the Michigan AFL-CIO, UAW, MEA, & many more.
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/08/2026
Amherst College is looking for a Director of Public History and Engagement: networks.h-net.org/jobs/70277/a... 🗃️
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Amherst College - Director of Public History and Engagement | H-Net
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is happening in Nevada on BLM land but also, for DC area friends - a proposal to build data centers on land currently part of Prince William Forest Park (a NPS property) Keep in mind these projects also bring transmission lines, battery storage facilities, pipelines and other infrastructure
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Prince William Forest Park land swap considered for data centers
Federal officials are considering a land swap that would allow a developer to build at least four data centers next to Prince William Forest Park in close proximity to Quantico Creek, one of the most ...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Its unfortunately a bit boring to repeat the same thing over and over again, but peer review, like the rest of academia and knowledge work in general, is under enormous duress bc the labor conditions of the people who do it have deteriorated beyond the point of the system functioning as intended.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 22/08/2026
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.
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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Maddening, glad it finally got published without its findings being watered down data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.
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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The perfect clickbait has never been ...
Picture of three orcas swimming with the CNN headline "Watch an orca ram a sunfish so hard that the fish explodes"
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 28/07/2026
And I would do anything for clicks Oh, I would do anything for clicks Oh, I would do anything for clicks But I won't Douthat
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is why I always carry a copy of Tom Paine’s Age of Reason with me when I travel in case I need to do an impromptu public reading.
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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don’t know the name of the artist, but may their praises be sung henceforth!
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I did an experiment in which I asked Copilot to generate a review of a grant proposal. I gave it the review criteria and it spat out a surprisingly specific and thorough review… before I’d given it a proposal. It’s just predictive text. It is not thinking. it generates text, it does not write.
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Comments clarify that it's a flat 20 cent fee, not 20%, which only reinforces the fact that the big issue is Door Dash's support for undermining self-government in D.C.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Job Opportunity! Williams College - Open Rank Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies of the Global South in the Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Williams College networks.h-net.org/jobs/70139/w...
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Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
21 touches for Mbappe. Spain is doing an amazing job controlling this game.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 14/07/2026
I ALSO AM ANTICIPATING UPCOMING FANTASY SPY NOVEL 'WICKHILLS' FROM LOCAL AUTHOR PREMEE MOHAMED Nobody else is apparently lol
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Next week, I'll be talking about The Escapes of David George at the Library Company of Philadelphia (founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731)! The event is free, but you need to register for a ticket: support.librarycompany.org/event/the-es... #AmRev #bskystorians
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
someone who willingly gets a nazi tattoo should not be a candidate for office, sorry but this theorem remains undefeated
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For years I taught @rachelcleves.bsky.social book as a model of the historian's craft. If you haven't read it, you should. If you've read it, and have the chance to speak out about Walden failing to give Rachel credit for her research and work, please do so. www.strandbooks.com/charity-and-...
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Buy Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Paperback by Cleves, Rechel Hope Online
Order the Paperback edition of "Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America" by Cleves, Rechel Hope, published by Oxford University Press. Fast shipping from Strand Books.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
CHRIS RUFO: [to ezra klein's stupid fucking face] I enjoy lying. I think lying is great if it gets me what I want, which is to whip up racist mobs against immigrants EZRA KLEIN: they're calling him the most honest man to ever live
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Jefferson-Pilot Pickles @jeffersonpilot.org · 29/06/2026
Orson Welles holding a glass of wine for a Paul Masson commercial, with the Pausa de Hidratación logo in the corner
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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh dear god... his problem is the trials weren't organized enough... The witchcraft accusations were a machine. The court records became formulaic as the accusation and trials went on because how routine each case went. MA Bay set up a court system to run through cases, the AG had a plan 🧵
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thanks, John. Should have thought of that: bookshop.org/p/books/char...
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.
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First the Kennedy Center, Now the Smithsonian
How long can the museum system’s leader, Lonnie Bunch, survive?
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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's remarkable how often the spirits of dead eighteenth-century men return with opinions identical to those of the person holding the planchette. open.substack.com/pub/alexisco...
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The Founders Can’t Save You
Founding v Substack
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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Very cool piece in the NYT by my Xavier colleague, Karim Tiro. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Native Leader Who Tied His People’s Fate to the Patriot Cause
For the 250th anniversary, the Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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